Ideologies
CONTAINMENT
BERLIN CRISIS
ALLIANCES
COMPETITIONN
SPIES
POLITICAL CARTOONS
Cause & Effect
100
This economic system allows private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
100
The U.S. policy designed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
Germany was divided into this many occupation zones after WWII.
What are four zones?
100
The U.S.-led military alliance formed in 1949.
What is NATO?
100
The competition between the U.S. and USSR to build more powerful nuclear weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
100
The act of secretly gathering information about another country.
What is espionage?
100
This map shows Europe divided into yellow NATO countries and red Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War. What major development does this division represent?
What is the military division of Europe during the Cold War (or the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact)?
100
Japan attacks the United States at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
What is the United States enters World War II?
200
This system gives the government control over property and production.
What is communism?
200
This doctrine promised aid to countries resisting communism, beginning in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked land routes into West Berlin. This event is called the ________.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
200
The Soviet military alliance formed in 1955 in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
The idea that both sides could destroy each other completely with nuclear weapons.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
200
The 1960 incident involving an American spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is the U-2 Incident?
200
According to this timeline, which Cold War event occurred in 1948 when the Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin?
What is the Berlin Blockade?
200
North Korea invades South Korea in 1950 in an attempt to spread communism.
What is the United States enters the Korean War to contain communism?
300
World War II ended in this year, beginning Cold War tensions.
What is 1945?
300
This plan gave billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
The U.S. response that flew supplies into West Berlin for nearly a year.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
North Korea invades South Korea in 1950, and the United States calls on its allies to respond.
What is the United Nations (and U.S.-led forces) intervene in the Korean War to defend South Korea?
300
The first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
300
Why was the U-2 Incident embarrassing for the United States?
The U.S. denied spying until the Soviets revealed the captured pilot.
300
In this cartoon, a large car labeled as a congressional investigating committee is running over innocent people while the driver says, “It’s okay — we’re hunting C
ommunists.” What Cold War-era movement is being criticized?
What is McCarthyism (or the Second Red Scare)?
300
The United States is attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What is the United States enters World War II?
400
Name two major military or economic actions taken by the United States that helped defeat Germany in Europe during WWII.
What are Lend-Lease and D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
400
Why did the U.S. believe economic aid would stop communism?
Strong economies reduce poverty and instability, making communism less appealing.
400
Berlin was located inside which zone of Germany?
What is the Soviet (East German) zone?
400
Why did alliances increase Cold War tension?
They divided Europe into opposing military camps and made conflict more likely.
400
The U.S. agency created in response to Sputnik.
What is NASA?
400
One U.S. intelligence agency expanded during the Cold War.
What is the CIA?
400
This cartoon shows the United States and the Soviet Union standing on opposite sides with massive atomic and hydrogen bombs behind them. Missiles are flying between them, and both sides warn not to use the weapons. What Cold War concept is being illustrated?
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
400
The United States enters World War II and mobilizes its economy and military for total war.
What is the United States becomes the leading military and economic power in the world?
500
Explain why capitalism and communism created tension after WWII.
They were opposing economic and political systems, and each side believed the other threatened its global influence and way of life.
500
Give one example of containment in action and explain how it worked.
Berlin Airlift (supplied West Berlin to resist Soviet pressure) OR Truman Doctrine (aid to Greece/Turkey). Explanation must show stopping spread of communism.
500
Why was the Berlin Airlift considered a victory for the United States?
It showed the U.S. would defend West Berlin without starting a war and successfully resisted Soviet pressure.
500
How did NATO and the Warsaw Pact demonstrate the division of Europe?
Western Europe aligned with the U.S.; Eastern Europe aligned with the USSR, creating two armed blocs.
500
How did the Arms Race and Space Race increase fear in American society?
People feared nuclear war and believed missile technology could lead to sudden attacks.
500
How did espionage increase Cold War tensions?
It increased distrust and made cooperation between the superpowers nearly impossible.
500
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
World War II ends with the United States playing a major role in defeating Germany and Japan.
What is the United States abandons isolationism and adopts a policy of internationalism?